Internships and
Community Service

Internships:
At Lock haven University, we require our Recreation Management students to complete two separate internships. This puts our students ahead of the standard for actual experience in the field. Our first internship is five weeks and a minimum of 120 hours in length and provides an insight into the field of recreation. Our second internship is our Professional Field Experience, which is a senior internship that lasts the length of a semester and requires 400 to 480 minimum hours.

Community Service:
In order to further prepare our students, we require the completion of fifty community volunteer hours (15 service hours and 35 programming hours). Service hours include anything you can do to help out a community member or organization, such as an organized leaf-raking program, or helping with trail maintenance or river cleanup, etc. Programming hours include time that you volunteer and plan and/or run a program of some type. Examples of programming hours include planning a program for high school students, planning and running a cleanup of some sort, or supervising children through the Second Mile Youth Program, etc. Our students have given nothing but positive feedback about this requirement as it has benefited them greatly.